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_________________"We all write that way today. But no one had written like that before Heinlein." ~ Robert Silverberg"...the man who ... taught me to argue with the accepted version." ~ Samuel R. Delany

Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:43 pm

JamesGifford

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Re: "Have Spacesuit" to be filmed?

A near-zero production company with no track record except distribution of one NASA-based documentary. They may not even hold the option.

I've heard the rumor. Also a rumor of a script that more or less combined Mother Thing and Oscar into some sort of ghost-alien that haunted a former ISS worker's suit. Not sure if they're the same thing.

This would be, in some ways, one of the easiest Heinlein properties to film. Even a modest budget at a second-string studio could, with care and today's CGI, turn out a dazzler.

Except for the unpleasant parts of the story, like achievement through hard work, human nobility, a half-love story involving a 12 year old girl, etc.

I would expect no better result than for Puppet Masters - a recognizable form of the story, Hollywoodized and penny-pinched into something with BO appeal.

But just imagine, say, William H. Macy making a long pause, taking a pipe from his mouth, and saying to a soot-covered Kip, "You should know better than to manufacture explosives in a frame building, son." Then walking away, book in hand.

My attitude towards the modernity of the story has swung over quite an arc. When I first read it, I didn't have enough worldview to judge it. A few years later, it seemed a little 50s-ish and dated. Through the seventies, it was godawful dated. Then a funny thing happened to me and (I think) society; it's not really dated at all. If anything, with very minor points it could be set in the here and now of any time from 1990 to ten years from now.

There are things I would touch up in a screenplay, but not much. The critical thing is to get Kip's arc of character growth exactly - *exactly* - right. From a world no bigger than his backyard laboratory to spokesman for the human race... that's a big damned arc.

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